No certain intelligence of the Japanese advance across the Yalu
has yet been received. There are many reports of small engagements at the mouth of the river, but of the great movement which must be in progress there is no account. All we know beyond doubt is that the Japanese have landed large reinforcements in Korea, and that a great plan of some kind is 'being slOwly worked out. The Russians publish constant statements of the satety of their railway, and calculations of the vast army, four hundred thousand men, which will shortly be at General Kuropatkin's disposal; but of great forces defending the Yalu, either at Wi-ju or Antnng, there is as yet no clear proof. The probability is that the Russian General hopes for a great battle at Liao-
yang or in front of Mukden; but he has to reckon with his enemy, whose plan is still unrevealed. The Japanese objective for the land movement as well as the naval attack may be Port Arthur.
